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Word: orders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Detroit Civic | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Problems do not get easier as the World grows older. The extraordinary multiplicity of plants and animals is astounding. What an imagination the Creator must have had! Our growth of knowledge of the planetary system shows that everything is governed by one system of law. Order permeates all space which leads us to postulate the existence of some great being who controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...contemplate what the effect of Dr. Hoick's words must be upon the few remaining Fletcherites. Unaccustomed to normal mastication, these fastidious trenchermen will swill too much and too abruptly and die off in short order. Not so John D. Rockefeller who, unmoved by fads and always conservative, will continue to chew his food soberly and slowly in a modified adaptation of Horace Fletcher's preposterous method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fletcherizing | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...tons required each and every two weeks for Mortimer B. Fuller's private ocean, 100 miles from the seashore, are the least of the drains on International Salt's mines and evaporating plants. Next in order of unimportance is the production of table salt. Major uses of salt are found in the curing of hides, manufacture of soap, paper, ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sufficiently Saline | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Rubber Cq. Tire makers, linked in the Rubber Pool, have seen their inventories of crude rubber, bought at around 40? a pound, fall to less than 20?. The same tiremakers, linked in the new Rubber Institute, are fighting fierce competition from mileage-guaranteeing mail order houses (see LETTERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tires | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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